Utah has no legal standing to pass such a "filter".

That's because, realistically, nobody cares about doing this on Android. It has happened on PCs: See Steam, Epic Games Store, Bethesda Launcher, etc etc.

finally someone called this out. I tweeted this link and said the exact same thing. Everyone all in this thread talking about Appleâ€(TM)s 30% cut when literally the only reason this bill exists is because they are upset Apple booted off the QAnon app off of its store.

Good riddance.

If you're scared of this, wait until you see what your company can do with their EDR solution!

You say this, but let's share your credentials for kernel development.

I love the complaints in here over DST, I especially like the suggestions that "schools should adjust schedules so that kids should not go to school in the dark."

And therein lies the problem. So instead of adjusting the clocks, we'll now adjust everybody's schedule. In the winter time, you work from 9A-6P. In the summertime, you work from 10A-7P. Bam!

You now sleep until 8A instead of 7A, or in the winter time you sleep until 7A instead of 8A!

And....you're doing exactly what you would have fucking done with DST, except where you change the timings...

I am reading lots of arguments where people go "Well what about THIS random edge case? and THAT one?" You won't win against these people. These are the same people who willingly drop $20,000 on a new truck because they might get 2 inches of snow in the winter, rather than simply $1,000 on a set of good winter tires and wheels. Or $20,000 on a truck because there is the rare occasion they may need to haul something, rather than renting a truck from the local Home Depot or UHaul for a hundred bucks or two.

Funny thing about Pebble is that they weren't a "smart watch" company. They were a data mining Silicon Valley company. Pebble was looking for more data scientists than they were giving a damn about making a hardware product. I met a few of them.

The hardware product was just barely a thing to allow them to collect the data they wanted (where their real attempt at money was in data collection and sales). "Big Data" is going belly up it seems.

I agree with you, but I still think it's a problem for most American workers. Though there is a large bit of uneducated populace that could take on these jobs. Though I highly doubt someone who obtained a 4-year degree is going to come out and do laborious farm-hand type work even if you tied the minimum wage to the cost of living. (That said, at least in the short term, it might help because a cost of living min wage would be far higher than what the education was worth itself).

Honestly, while I don't disagree that being a good farmer takes a lot of education, dedication, experience, and time; the average American college student is going through many tens of thousands of dollars in debt, being told that this was what they needed to do in order to compete in the educated world economy; only to get out of school and find the jobs are at worst "internships" that are unpaid, and at best are jobs that are paid like absolute garbage. For that matter, the universities also are not necessarily providing them the skills they need to actually contribute in the workforce. I often times interact with college students in my career and I find that while they are energetic and want to learn, they were woefully unprepared for even the most basic understanding. And this is an absolute problem for anyone entering a Bachelor's program. The problem is, our education system is doing this en masse, to every single student. "Get the paper! It will get you a career and you'll pay that loan right off! Your American dream will come true!"

Again, I'm not discounting the farmers. Though I do discount the farm hands who do nothing but do menial tasks in the field. Though I do agree that farm work should pay more as well and incentivize hiring locals to do the jobs.

At any rate, the problem is multi-pronged and requires a multi-pronged approach to fixing. Unfortunately that requires analyzing both education and VISA policies. And Americans love their college football culture too much to give a shit about the actual education quality received. It's pretty terrible.

Just independent until mommy and daddy's money comes and saves the day. Just like they got a job at 14 years old, saved up all of the money themselves, bought themselves a car, paid full insurance, pay for a cell phone, and oh pay their own health insurance once they turn 18 (none of this let's sit on parents' insurance until 25 nonsense, remember, you automatically have 'agency' at 18, right?)

Highly doubt it.

Curse opened an office in Irvine recently (past year or so) which I suspected at the time was a move to court someone in California into buying Curse. I called back when they announced the opening of the office, amusingly (I've got friends that work at Curse and also at other local game companies in that region). Why they needed to open an office there for this, I'm not sure; but I suspected it due to the proximity of Blizzard & Riot Games.

I suspect if anything it's possible that Twitch will continue to allow Curse to operate semi independently. The standard folks to leave will likely be out of jobs here soon. Typical back office IT, HR, all of the Overhead stuff. Likely all pulled into the Twitch realm. Or not. It really depends. If they start making too many changes too early a lot of the Curse staff might bail and all of the knowledge will leave.

I think it's funny how people seem to think that being anonymous is important while simultaneously being pissed off that the government doesn't do enough to "deter cheating" of the voting system, legality of immigration status. In short, MY privacy is IMPORTANT, but YOUR privacy is not!

Even more amusing is that they all seem to have no problems with private companies hoarding all of this data. We have no Constitutional protections against private entities. Google and Facebook are far more powerful than the NSA, FBI, and DEA combined. But let's not draw any attention to that, shall we? Let's all focus on how the EVIL GUBMINT is STORIN' DATA ON ME!

Let's pay no attention to the fact that the things you post on social networking or the Internet in general, or the stuff you buy, can be used to build a profile of you that not only controls how much money you're going to spend on something (interest rates), but also whether or not you're hirable at all. You know, things that are truly important to like 99.99% of anyone in the country, earning money and buying goods and services with their money.

Those people ARE enemies. Groups filing for tax-free status for dubious bullshit reasons are garbage. None of these groups are doing anything charitable, lol.

No, they enabled copy protection that the content producers want to see enabled before they let you stream 1080P/4K content. That's just how it is. It sucks, but don't go after Microsoft on this one.

The good news is that since 4K will be so hard to obtain--then most end users will ultimately just use 720P content anyway. There's no demand for 4K content in the sense that if it's too fucking difficult to access nobody will want it.